Hacker News: junkrat002

New comment by junkrat002 in "Claude: System Prompts"

junkrat002 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:30:18 +0000

I am sorry, Dave. I am afraid I cannot do that. You appear to be suffering from burnout and you should take a break.

New comment by junkrat002 in "How Palantir is mapping the nation’s data"

junkrat002 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:22:08 +0000

Double plus good.

New comment by junkrat002 in "The case against CS master’s degrees"

junkrat002 — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:19:19 +0000

As someone who is 70% through Georgia Tech's OMSCS, I found very few compelling arguments in this essay.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"

junkrat002 — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:14:55 +0000

Stand up for yourself!

New comment by junkrat002 in "Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users"

junkrat002 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 03:51:44 +0000

>but they altered the deal

Pray they don't alter it further.

New comment by junkrat002 in "What it’s like inside your plane’s hidden ‘crew rest’"

junkrat002 — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 21:42:06 +0000

I seem to have developed a Pavlovian reflex. About 30 seconds after takeoff, I can't stay awake to save my life. My wife hates flying with me.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to move to Tulsa"

junkrat002 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:07:12 +0000

(S)He didn't say anything about California.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents"

junkrat002 — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:41:54 +0000

I left reddit for the same reason. It gets ugly fast.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Tesla suffers network outage disabling vehicles’ mobile app"

junkrat002 — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:25:03 +0000

Disabling js also works

New comment by junkrat002 in "Zoom Partial Outages"

junkrat002 — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:39:08 +0000

I prefer Google Meet

New comment by junkrat002 in "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You"

junkrat002 — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:06:00 +0000

There was a short shout out to Windows.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Double Entry Accounting for Developers"

junkrat002 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:26:38 +0000

I agree with your statements. If someone has spent three years studying accounting, I would certainly expect that he or she is able to blog coherently about double entry accounting.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Double Entry Accounting for Developers"

junkrat002 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:20:41 +0000

Yes I agree, a vast difference between basic accounting and a CPA. I am not a CPA, but I do understand accounting.

That doesn't change the fact that I'd be wary of any accountant writing a blog post on how to write good quality code for production. Are there accountants out there who can do a good job of that? Absolutely. Are there many more accountants who would do a poor job of that? My guess is also yes.

New comment by junkrat002 in "Double Entry Accounting for Developers"

junkrat002 — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:05:30 +0000

Ex-finance SWE here. I closed the article after that part. If you don't understand accounting and read this, you'll only be more confused when you learn how accounting actually works.

For the most part, devs in general should not be teaching accounting. There's a reason that it is so challenging to earn a CPA.